>Hi,
>
>When using Apple HD SC and ResEdit I managed to initialize a Hitachi
>(245282k) SCSI disk on my IIcx. :-)  I made the following partitions:
>
>40 Mb MAC OS
>32 Mb NetBSD root
>20 Mb NetBSD swap
>150 Mb NetBSD usr
>
>Mkfs formats the three NetBSD partions, but only _half_ the size it should
>be.  I changed the Sector Size from 256 to 512, and the partions was then
>formatted to the right size as mentioned above :-)
>
>I happily started installing NetBSD 1.4.1, and after the base.tgz was
>installed the system was full, and all the other packages was not
>installed :-(
>
>Are my root or usr partion to small, or did I do something terrible wrong
>when changing the Sector Size?

When you fire up the installer, it _ONLY_ mounts the root partition. You
must _manually_ mount the other partitions using the minishell before
installing. That's why it became full after just the base install.

HTH
Mike
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